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How Uncle Sara's Men-of-War Are
Equipped.
It Costs a Mint of Money—Housekesp
ing is Done Under a Rigid System.
A Small Army of Men.
From the Washington Star.
Furniture and supplies for Uncle Sam's
new war vessels cost a mint of money.
To fit out one of these ships for a cruise
is a bigger job than equipping a first-class
hotel. Here is a floating fortress, as
long as two city blocks, with all modern
conveniences and complete restaurant
facilities, lighted throughout by elec
tricity—a gigantic fighting machine and
military barracks combined. Her steel
walls, bristling with guns, shelter a
small army of men. The New York, for
example, has a crew numbering 455, be
sides 40 marines and 44 officers. To feed
them all for a twelve month, at the gov
ernment's rate of allowance, costs $60,000.
On going into commission such a ship
must be furnished throughout from the
kitchen, which is as complete as that of a
great city hostelry, to the captain's cabin,
r-he carries large stocks of stationery,
hardware and apothecaries' goods, and Is
provided with tools for all sorts of trades.
Everything conceivable that may be
needed for purposes of war and peace is
supplied, because on the high seas no
shops or factories are accessible. Usually
the vessel is provisioned for only three
months, because there is no room to stow
more. The rations are purchased by the
navy department and comprise such
necessaries as hard bread, cornmeal, oat
meal. hominy, flour, salt pork, beans,
peas, rice, preserved meats, butter, coffee
and tea.
Every man in the navy, from the last
hoy shipped up to the admiral, has an al
lowance of 30 cents a day for rations,
which he may draw either in food or in
money. The paymaster of the ship has
charge of all the provisions, which are
dolt out by his "yeoman,"’ who is in turn
assisted by the Jack o' Dust. The person
last named attends to opening the barrels
and packages. Coffee and sugar are
served out once in ten days, flour every
four days, and meats daily. While in
port fresh provisions are furnished, each
man receiving one pound of fresh bread,
one and one-quarter pounds of fresh meat
and one pound of fresh vegetables per
diem. These take the place of the ordi
nary ration, only tea and coffee being pro
vided in addition. The allowance is at
all times so liberal that the enlisted men
cannot possibly consume the whole of it;
so they take part of it in cash, which
they utilize in ways presently to be
described.
KEEPING HOrSE ON BOARD SHIP.
The methods of housekeeping- on board
of a ship of war are very interesting. All
of the officers and men are divided up
into little clubs, each of which has its
cook and manages its own affairs. These
clubs are called “messes.” There is the
captain's mess, the wardroom mess, the
junior officers' mess, the warrant officers’
mess, the petty officers’ mess and the
men's messes. Every officers' mess has a
caterer, who is elected periodically from
its own membership. Members are com
pelled by the naval regulations to serve
in this capacity when called on, though
no one can be obliged to hold the place
more than two consecutive months. It is
a post of responsibility, the incumbent
having to direct the purchase of provis
ions. to keep accounts and to pay all bills.
Some men like the task and may retain
it for a long time together if the mess is
pleased.
The captain, because there is only one
of him. must cater fbr himself. Ho
messes by himself in his cabin and eats in
lonely state, save when he chooses to in
vite officers to dine with him. If the ves
sel is a flagship he may mess with the ad
miral or not, just as he chooses. The
admiral has his own cabin, of course. The
captain has his own steward, his private
cook and two cabin hoys. The admiral
lias a like staff of servants, with perhaps
an extra boy. It must bo understood that
the "boys” on a war vessel are enlisted
men at least 21 years old.
The wardroom mess has its own cook
and steward. On the New York it com
prises twenty officers and has six boys in
addition. The juniors' mess on the same
vessel—embracing ensigns, midshipmen,
etc.,-- has a cook, steward and four boys.
The warrant officers' mess is composed' of
the sailmaker, gunner, carpenter and
boatswain: it has a cook, steward and
one boy. The same provision of service is
made for the master-at-arms’ mess, in
cluding the petty officers of the first-class,
namely, the master-at-arms, quartermas
ter. paymaster’s yeoman and apothecary.
The messes of the warrant officers above
mentioned arc conducted just like those
of higher officers, drawing their rations
in the shape of money and buying their
own provender.
The men are divided up into messes of
twelve usually. Each such club elects its
own caterer and chooses one of its mem
bers for t ook, with the approval of the
executive officer. The most important re
quirement for this culinary post is ability
to make bread, (lood broadmakers are
in great demand for such positions on
hoard ship. The mess cook receives from
the mess wages genial to the money equiv
alent of from one to two rations monthly
that is to say, from 19.30 to $18.60 a
month. This salary is so much in addi
tion to his pay from the government
and renders the office very desirable.
The incumbent draws the rations from
the paymaster and prepares them for the
table. Hut. because the allowance is
greater than is needed, he takes only
eight rations in food and the remaining
er in money. The cash thus obtained
goes to form what is called the mess
uind. to which each man usually adds
■‘"out $2 monthly. The mess fund pays
tie- cook and provides all sorts of luxu
f'l s. such as sweets, condensed milk and
many other good thinge that can be pur
chased when in port.
I lie messes are organizations of military
character. All of them are under the
direction of the executive officer of the
S:| T That personage, always the senior
Jl, ‘c officer on board, presides at the ward
r “im mess; the other members of that
eating club occupy places at the table in
t lic order of their rank. Line officers sit
0!l the starboard side and staff officers on
' m port side. But the caterer nro tern.
S! 's at the foot of the table. Though in
rhinary matters informal, strict etiquette
('"corns all essentials in the mess. The
executive officer has authority to put a
• "p to any dispute or offensive conversa
tion.
IN TOE WARDROOM.
A description of the management of the
'cardroom mess will serve, with few
mollifications, for the officers' messes,
the caterer buys the provisions. He gets
- iern on shore when the ship is in port.
xeept when compelled to do so, he does
lot purchase from the vessel's
cores, but draws the rations from
' :e mess in cash. However, ho
Joes usually obtain from the paymaster
'' mit he needs in the way of cooking but
’l cooking sugar, rice, beans, pork and
•limed meats, paying for them in money,
Jc.-ause these articles, as dispensed by
note Sam. are just as good of their kind
(, an be got and are furnished at about
-A Members of the mess pay their bills
1 to the caterer. The cost of board
o each officer in the wardroom is usually
inout S3O a month. It is somewhat less
the Asiatic station, the markets in
nat part of the world being cheaper,
'arc isit balance left over in thecaterer's
'•mas. which goes to make up the mess
l'his fund in the wardroom will ,
sometimes amount to as much as SI,OOO. It
provides for the replenishment of crock
ery, for entertaining by the mess while in
port and for all sorts of unusual expenses.
Evert* man in the navy, from the ad
miral down to the jack 'o dust, must
supply his own bed clothes and mess
furniture, such as crockery, etc. To each
officer a mattress and pillow arc allowed,
and to each sailor a hammock. Until re
cently the government lias furnished
nothing in the way of table ware,
except for the captain, who is pro
vided with enough things of the kind
to set up a good-sized household, including
a dozen of everything Within the last
two months, however, all silver plated
ware required for the wardroom has been
allowed by the bureau of equipment. To
start a wardroom mess requires an invest
ment of S6O to $75 foreaoh officer At the
end of a cruise all of the china, linen,
etc., is sold for what it will bring—usually
about 10 per cent of the original cost.
The proceeds are divided among the
officers who owned the property.
it is usual in an officers' mess to estab
lish what is termed a wine mess. For
this it is necessary to obtain the captain's
permission, it is a joint stock company,
the purpose of which is to furnish drink
ables. For example, there are twenty
gentlemen in the wardroom moss of the
New York. Fifteen of them join in a
wine mess, each paying S2O for a
share. From their number they
elect a wine caterer, who buys the
bottled goods and sells them to the offi
cers at cost, with a small percentage
added to cover breakage and loss. A gale
of wind on more than one occasion has
been known to wipe out a wine mess.
Those who do not belong to the wine mess
are permitted ordinarily to purchase
wine from the wine caterer at prices 10
per cent above the regular rate. Only
wines and malt liquors are allowed to be
served. No spirits are permitted on
board except in the medicine chest. Of
ficers, however, do commonly have a
small private stock of whisky or brandy,
and the infringement of the regulations
m this regard is winked at. Rut a sailor
who smuggles intoxicants irjto the ship is
liable to thirty days in durance vile on
bread and water.
THE CUI.INARY DEPARTMENT.
The kitchen of a ship of war is under
the direction of the ship's cook, whose
functions are like those of a chef in a
great hotel. He is an important man in
his way. and his responsibilities are
great. The culinary department is on a
considerable scale, in addition to the or
dinary ship’s kitchen or galley, the New
York has three ranges—one for the ad
miral, another for the captain, and a
third for the wardroom mess. In the
gal ley all the cooking is done for the other
officers and for the men. The various
mess cooks serve merely as assistants.
They prepare the meats, soups, breads,
etc., for the fire, and the ship's cook does
the rest.
All waste grease, empty barrels and
boxes from the paymaster's storeroom,
and such refuse, are sold by the executive
officer, the proceeds going to make up
what is called the "slush fund." This
money provides reading mutter for the
crew, extra music for the baud, etc. The
slush or grease used formerly to be a per
quisite of the ship's cook, and the sale of
it added largely to his pay; but improved
methods of cookery allow comparatively
little waste in this shape. Just as smoke
is said to be a symptom of imperfect com
bustion. so slush is a symptom of iroper
feet cooking.
The reader may have been struck by
the great number of servants required on
a ship of war. It should be explained
that their menial functions are only a
minor part of their business. They all
have military duty to perform, forming a
portion of the fighting force of the float
ing fortress. They take part in drills
and bear arms in the infantry battalion.
Every man on board of such a vessel is a
fighter and has his station for that pur
pose. The cooks and even the paymas
ter's clerk are fighting men. In drills,
which imitate martial actions, the ser
vants mostly perform such work as the
handling of powder and torpedoes. How
ever, they are not obliged to go afloat, to
keep watch or to row boats.
The powder is stored below in a room
called the magazine. For the great guns
it is in bags, each of which is a single
charge and is packed in a water-tight
copper cylinder. The cylinders are
placed on racks. The cartridges for
rapid-fire guns and small arms are stowed
in wooden boxes in the shell room. Tn
this room the empty steel shells are kept
already for loading. The loads for them,
with fuses attached, arc in the magazine,
each one in a copper cylinder. If the ship
takes fire, the magazine can be flooded
with water at a moment's notice. The
cylinders being water tight, the powder
will not suffer anv injury. Salutes are
fired with a six-pounder rapid-fire gun
usually. Blank charges, ready prepared
for tho purpose in metal cases mid with
out projectiles, are employed. The only
man entitled to a salute of twenty-one
guns, which is the maximum, is Presi
dent Cleveland. The next honor in that
way is seventeen guns, according to an
admiral. Twenty-one rounds is the
national salute,fired to celebrate Independ
ence day or other such occasions. Salutes
cost about 75 cents a shot.
BOOKS AS WEI.I, AS MAGAZINES.
A ship-of-war always has a library of
300 or soOvolume s. tomprising histories,
travels, narratives of ad ventures by sea,
biographies of naval heroes and naval
text books. It contains no novels. Wash
ing for the officers is done ashore when
practicable; otherwise by the boys, who
are glad to make a little extra money in
this way. In every respect the house
keeping on board of such a vessel is per
fection. Absolute cleanliness and neat
ness are insisted on. All the
water used on board is distilled
from sea water by special ap
paratus provided for tlie purpose. Such
apparatus is furnished even on sailing
vessels in the navy, so that supplies of
water from the shore or from rain are no
longer depended on. Among the hospital
stores of the ship, for the use of the sick,
such luxuries are kept in stock as cocoa,
extract of beef, extract of clams, chicken
soup, mutton broth, brandy, whisky,
wine, port and sherry.
When anew ship is about to go into
commission a book is made up at the Na\*y
department in Washington, containing
lists of all the articles of every kind with
which she is to be furnished, even to the
food. Such of things as have to be man
ufactured are ordered from the navy
yards where they can be made conven
iently and are forwarded to the yard
where the vessel lies. Finally, the book
is sent to the commandant of that yard,
with orders to have ready everything
specified in it. It is handed over to the
general storekeeper of the yard, who has
charge of all stores of every description.
Probably there is now $10,000,000 worth
of stores and supplies in the hands of the
general storekeeper at the Brooklyn
navy yard. The storekeeper goes over
the book, sets aside such of the goods
required as he has in his possession, and
makes requisition upon the various de
partments in the yard for whatever else
he requires. It should be understood that
every bureau of the navy department here
has a branch at each yard and on board
of every ship in theservice, so that it may
be said to ramify everywhere. The yard
departments referred to furnish whatever
is wanted in the way of equipments or
what not, and on the day that the ship
goes into commission, the storekeeper has
had everything placed on board of her,
except the medicines. These come direct
from the naval laboratory at New York.
The Shoe and Leather Reporter would like
to see an amendment to the penal code
which would prescribe the penalty of death
to vitriol throwers, where man or woman
adopts this method of wreaking vengeance on
an enemy.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, IS9T
SPRUCE UP
especially as you can do it
for
SO LITTLE MONEY
at
FALK CLOTHING CO.
o
Their stock has never been so at
tractive
or
THEIR PRICES SO L OIV
OVER AND UNDER THE ALPS.
Simplon Tunnel to Be Done in Less
Than Six Years.
The announcement that the contract
has been signed for the construction of
the tunnel under the Simplon Pass re
calls vividly the circumstances connected
with the first perforation of the Alps at
Mont Cenis, one of the boldest and most
remarkable engineering feats of this or
any other country. The time occupied
in piercing the mountains by that re
markable tunnel was thirteen years, but
as many as thirty elapsed between the
selection of the site and the completion
of the work. The contractors have un
dertaken to finish the Simplon in five and
a half years.
The selection of the site itself was a
matter of some difficulty, requiring the
exercise of the greatest care and judg
ment. It was a native of Bardonneche
who first directed attention to the spot
in a pamphlet published in 1841.
and distinguished engineers and
geologists, after mature deliberation,
decided that no better could be found.
NAPOLEON’S HIGHWAY.
It seems scarcely credible that until
the commencement of the present cen
tury, there was no road across the Alps.
Yet. as a matter of fact, there was no
carriageway till the great Napoleon, af
ter experiencing enormous difficulty in
the passage of his army, began the works
for a practical road over the Mont Cenis
Pass. Operations were begun in 18P5,
but the work was not completed till 1810,
and the cost was £BOO,OOO. As Al
pine travelers know, the road is
carried up the mountain by six zigzags,
each of which is about three-quarters of a
mile in length, while the slope is about 1
in 12.
The Mont Cenis road being completed,
a large part of the traffic between North
ern Europe and Italy took that course.
The example once set. other roads were
carried over the most accessible passes
including the Simplon, the St. Gothard,
and the Spiugen—until there came to be
seven carriageable roads, none of which
offered difficulties to travelers in ordinary
weather, although all were liable to de
lay more or less serious during the greater
part of the winter season. Even Mont
Cenis. the most generally open, has been
closed for traffic for many days together
during the winter season.
PIERCING THROUGH QUARTZ.
The tunnel through tho crest of the
Alps had no tough granite rock to pen
etrate. Its worst troubles, arose from
the presence of a band of quartz about
1.000 feet thick, which took a year and
nine months to pierce. With this excep
tion, no real pifficulty was meet with on
account of the rock. The rocks at the
French end were for a long distance more
troublesome in working than those at
the other end. and were also more varied
in their nature, as they included many
bands of limestone and gypsum, as-well as
quartz, while on the Italian side there
was no chance from the conmencement,
all the material worked being compara
tively soft schist, which innumerable
veins and films of crystalline limestone
and quartz.
A small quantity of water followed the
workings from both ends, and, strange to
say, the quantity was nearly the same in
both. A water-proof brick lining was
constructed simultaneously with the ad
vance of the boring, and the water issued
from the unlined part to the extent,
speaking roughly, of 40,000 gallons per
day, from each end. One of the most
wonderful features in connection with
this great undertaking was the steadiness
and rapidity with which it was carried
through. Although before that time
there had been many completed tunnels
of a mile, or even two miles in length,
they had been worked from one or more
siiafts, as well as from the extremities,
and thus tho difficulties arising from dis
tance were not felt. Enormous as was
the magnitude of the undertaking, it
must be acknowledged that, in many re
spects, the Alpine tunnel was an excep
tionally easy work; but an average pro
gress of 250 feet per month, including all
delays and stoppages, carried on for thir
teen years without interruption, was a
matter of which engineers might well be
proud.
RAPID TUNNELING.
What is, perhaps, more remarkable
still, is the fact that, during the last
years, when the work was carried on
more than three miles from tho outer
world, the advance averaged nearly
500 feet per month. The greatest amount
of work performed in a single month was
in May. 1867, when 297 feet were bored in
the rtalian side alone.
The machinery used for piercing the
mountain was at once simple, ingenious
and effective, ft consisted of an ordinary
tool or solid chisel of steel of great size
and weight, driven horizontally against
the rock with great rapidity and force,
the tool being slightly turned at each
stroke. So rapid and powerful was the
machine that a hole a couple of inches
deep had been bored into a solid block of
the hardest quartz in a couple of minutes.
The rock was so hard that the steel
tool was completely blunted in that time,
and had to be replaced b.y anot her. The
force employed to drive the machine was
compressed air, having a density of be
tween six and seven atmospheres. As
many as seventeen such machines were
used together without danger of confu
ion, each working independently of the
hers.
Secretary Gresham Is said to be the only
man remembered in Washington who. as
head of the State Department, leaves his of
fice door open to all comers. Asa rule the
Secretary of state has been harder to get at
than any other cabinet officer.
CLOTHING.
BLACK WALNUT FARMING.
Virginia Producing a Limited Quan
tity of This Valuable Timber.
From the Washington Star.
Twelve carloads of black walnut logs
passed through Washington yesterday
over the Richmond and Danville road en
route to Philadelphia. These logs were
consigned by Mr. James Nichols, of Wood
Grove, 1/ir.don county, Virginia, who is
in the business of picking up black wal
nut trees here and there in the mountains
of Virginia near his home ntid getting
them to market. Mr. Nichols accompa
nied his logs tq Philadelphia, and while
in Washington gave a Star reporter some
idea of his interesting occupation.
"Black walnut is worth twice as much
nowadays,” said Mr. Nichols, “as it was
ten years ago. The supply is practically
exhausted. Ten years ago there was a
big quantity in sight in Southern Indiana
great trees, SO feet high to the first
limb, and from 3 to 7> feyt in diameter.
But all that is gone and Missouri lias tho
only supply of any considerable amount,
and that is melting away fast. These logs
of mine came from the woodlands on top
of the Katoctin range. They are none of
them what would be called first-class. A
few years ago nobody would think of buy -
ing them. That, indeed, is why they arc
in my hands to-day. Thousands of just
such logs have been cut and used for tiro
wood by Virginia farmers, and every
little while I hear nowadays of some old
backwoods mossback who lias burned u p
a SSO log in his $2 cook stove. That is a.
tiling to make you swear, but those old
fellows can’t read or write, and see few
outsiders, so they do just as they did fifty
years ago.’’
i found, the other day a black walnut
plank four feet wide*hailed up in a Vir
ginia barn, where it had been for twenty
years waiting until its owner could get
the $3 or $4 necessary to pay for getting
it made up into a good kitchen table.
The plank, just as it stood, was worth
money enough to buy the old man four
good cherry tables. I tell you, it is hard
to find 4-foot black walnut logs in my
neighborhood now. Six years ago I was
traveling in the southwestern part of
West Virginia, where I saw some ver.
fine timber land, i asked the peopl
met what land was worth around there.
" ‘Oh,” they said, "if you go back away
it can be had for 50 cents an acre. ’
“1 was through that wav last summer
and that same land, which I unluckily did
not buy, was stripped of its heavy tirn
ber, and they wpre grubbing out th
numerous black walnut stumps, whiol
they told me were worth anywhere fron
S2O to SIOO for the splendid sound bur
veneering to be cut from them.
"These little logs that we ship from the
Katoctins will seldom square over four
teen inches, but they are sound and make
a good quality of lumber. I pay about 1 ‘
cents a square foot in the log. the owner
grubbing the tree out by the rools. ac
cording to my directions. If a tree will
cut into a log fourteen feet long it do
well. The I armors are glad to get rid of
them, for the black walnut is not much
of a shade tree. Nothing will grow under
it, on account of the peculiar acid-like
quality of the tree, and there is hardly a
tree that grows that sends its limbs and
roots further literally, so that it despoils
a good deal of land. If a farmer can, by
expending $5 worth of labor, take out a
tree that will bring him sl2 to sls, and
leave him soil enough to bring in $6 or $8
hereafter in crops, why, he is making a
good thing of it. I get on an average $16,)
per 1,000 feet for the bla -k walnut I take
to market. There is a good margin be
tween buying and selling, but the quan
tity to be had is so limited that it is not a
safe or very profitable Dusiness to be en
gaged in. It would not pay me, or any
one. to put my whole time into it.
"And let me tell you this: If you want
to leave your children and grandchildren
a fortune, buy some worthless mountain
land and plant black walnuts. You can
get thousands of acres for a dollar an
acre in some parts of Virginia and West
Virginia, and the walnuts are to be had
in almost endless quantity every fall
within forty or fifty miles of Washington.
The tree really grows rapidly, notwith
standing its strong acid character and pe
culiarly dark, firm grain. Jf you choose
to cut a tree fifteen years old. you could
make money planting them for that length
of time. It is a good crop to try.”
To the Ladies.
There arc thousands of ladies throughout
the country whose systems are poisoned, and
whose blood is in an impure condition from
theabsorption of impure matter, due to men
strual irregularities. This class are peculiar
ly benefited by the wonderful tonic and
blood cleansing properties of Prickly Ash
Poke Root and Potassium (P. P. P.j Roses
and bounding health take the place of the
Sicily look, the lost color and the general
wreck or the system by the use of Prteki.v
Ash. Poke Root and Potassium, as hosts of
females will testify, and many certificates are
In possession of the company, which they
have promise 1 not to publish, and all prove
P. P. P. a blessing to womankind.
CAPT. J. D. JOHNSTON.
To all whom it may concern:—l take great
pleasure in testifying to the efficient
qualities of the popular remedy for eruptions
of the skin known as P. P. P. fPrtckl.v Ash.
Poke Hoot and Potassium). I suffered sever
al years with an unsightly and disagreeable
erupt on rn my face, and tried various reme
dies to remove It. none of which accomplished
the object until this valuable preparation
was resorted to. After taking three bottles
In accordance with directions. I am now en
tirely cured. J. 1). Johnston.
Of the firm of Johnston & Douglass,
—ad. Savannah, Ga.
Alice Barbi a popular German singer, mar
ried the private secretary of Queen Olga, of
Wurtemburg. on condition that he would al
low her to remain two years longer on the
stage.
Don Pedro Guforrerrec’ Horrible Delu
sion.
From the Philadelphia Times.
City of Mexico, Nov 15. Situated
within half an hour’s ride from the city
is the country place of a man who for
forty years lias been a voluntary recluse,
seeing only one face in that length, and
as much dead to the world as if his body
were indeed decayed. This nian is tho
wealthy Spaniard. Don Pedro Guier
rorres. at one time an officer in the royal
army of Spain, but who for nearly a
century has Nun a prey to the delusion
that he is a leper.or about to become one.
His reason for this horrible fancy is that
when a young man of 25 he went on a visit
to Honolulu and there met a lady, whom
he married, and whom he carried hack to
Madrid with him.
After several years of happiness this
j lady was seized with a malady that was
j pronounced to bo leprosy. The -.hock of
j this decision unhinged her mind, and in a
! short while she died by her own hands
Her husband, with this double blow to
bear, became a monomaniac on the subject
i that had deprived him of his beloved
I wife, and at last grew to believe that he,
too. was leprous. Resigning from the
army, he sold his estate in Spain, and
coining to Mexico, purchased the place
where lie now is. He had fitted up for
him a suit of apartments in which he has
spent every Hour of his life since. His
servant is only allowed to enter one room
at a time, when the don retires into
another until the man's work is done.
Twice a month a priest, goes from here to
confess him. but lie sits outside the little
inner window t hrough which he eon verses
with the unseen penitent. This unfortu
nate man never even walks in his garden,
which is, however, completely screened
from view by a fence eight feet high,
without a crack between. This exercise
he refrains from, for fear that it will pro
long his life, which he bears only as a
heavy burden imposed by providence.
One relaxation beside music he allows
himself, and that is books and newspa
pers. He is an accomplished linguist and
subscribes to all the leading journals and
magazines in the world, while he regu
larly employs an agent to find out and
send him ail the books that are published
that are worth perusing. His will pro
vides that his servant, wtio was once with
him in the army, and through all has
served him faithfully, is to place him,
when he dies, in his coffin, and to allow no
one to look upon him, and that ho is to be
buried thus oil the estate.
The Power of Imagination.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Lakewood, N. J., Nov. 27. Lieut. Mar
cus Conant, of this place, has just died in
Chicago under peculiar circumstances.
During the war tie was confined in Libby
prison, and a visit to tho famous building
recalled his hardships so vividly as to
cause an old wound to break out afresh,
ending his in death.
Cotton Movement.
New Orleans, Dec 1 The November move
ment of cotton into sight, as shown by rsocre
tary Hesters monthly New Orleans Cotton
Exchange report, is in excess of any move
tnent for that month except in 1891, taking
the records back as far as IsH I. The total for
the month was 1,656,884 bales, against 1 182,928
bales in November 1892. and 1.919.272 hales in
November 1891. an increase over last year of
173.956 hales, and a decrease under the year
before last of 262,38.8 bales. Hesters' weekly
report, also issued today, brings the figures
down to Dec. i. inclusive. The total amount
into sight for the week was 579,601 hales,
against 371.507 bales for the seven days end
ing Dec. I. inclusive, last year, ami 129,897
bales for the same time year before last.
MEDICAL
TETTER FOR 15 YEARS
On Face And Scalp. Physicians Pre
scriptions and Remedies Kail. Lost
All Hope of Cure. Thought Himself
DISFIGURED FOR LIFE
Cattcura Removed Crusts at Once.
Disease Entirely Gone in One Month.
Now No Trace. Skin Smooth.
For more than fifteen year? I wan effected
with running Tetter on rny face and scalp.
Various prescriptions and many remedies wero
furnished, being afterwards treated by many
physicians, and all to no avail. 1 bad lost all
nope of ever being cured, and concluded that I
was disfigured for life. A friend persuaded me
to give the (.'uticuiia Remedies a trial, which I
didin this way : Taking the < Tticura Resol
vent two teaspootifills after each meal, bathed
the effected parts in warm water with Cuticura
£oap, and applied the Cuticura freely until tho
crusts were all removed. In one month my faeo
and scalp were perfectly smooth. I give this
cheerful testimony for the benefit of all who are
thus afflicted. T. J. CARA MSS. I>. D.,
Columbiana, Ala.
TETTER ON SCALP AND HAND
T T sod Cuticura Remedies for Tetter on tho
scalp. They left me sound and well. My aunt
had Eczema of the scalp since girlhood. CUTl
cujla Remedies cured her.
S. J. BURKHART, Ruth ton, Tenn.
Had Dry Tetter on my hands. Used several
remedies without, relief. C'UTICtJRA Rkmeiueh
entirely cured me. Mv hands are smooth and
toft. F. B. WALKER, Oakland, Ga.
THE TORTURED, DISFIGURED
And humiliated, everywhere, will find in tho
Crrict’ttA Remedies a speedy and economical
cure for every disease ana humor, from pimple#
to scrofula, from infancy to age.
Bold throughout the world. Price, CtTTTf ttra
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zn" BHQRT BREATH,
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1 Afterth" World's Fair,” with 200 illustra
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A Farewell to the White City," illustrated.
• Lessons of the Fair.' illustrated.
"A White Umbrella at the Fair," illus
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"Oast Gun L. 33." poem, illustrated
•People Who Did Not Cos to the Fair, "illus
trated.
Amateur Photography at the Fair," illus
trated.
•A New World Fable." illustrated.
"A Nation of Dlecrverers." illustrated.
"Last Impressions,” Illustrated
‘•The Finances of the Exposition,” illus
trated.
"Traveling With a Reformer" (Mark
Twain), illustrated.
Letters of an Altrurian Traveler," illus
trated.
• One Fatherland." poem.
American Notes—ll. "In the Year of the
Fair.
•Apris.”
•'Chicago at Rest." poem.
-In the World of Art and Letters."
"The Progress or Science."
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